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Maud de Boer-Buquicchio: ''If all children are vulnerable, growing up in the streets throws a child in outright helplessness''

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio: ''If all children are vulnerable, growing up in the streets throws a child in outright helplessness''
[28/03/2007]

On the occasion of the debate on street children, Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio stressed the fact that street children are exposed to the worst forms of violations of their human rights. ''They are being ignored, ignored in their suffering and ignored in their numbers. They are invisible for those who do not want to see them'' she added.